Solve 5/6*6/4

$$\frac { 5 } { 6 } \times \frac { 6 } { 4 }$$

Evaluate

$$\frac{5}{4}=1.25$$

Solution Steps

Reduce the fraction \frac{6}{4} to lowest terms by extracting and canceling out 2.

$$\frac{5}{6}\times \frac{3}{2}$$

Multiply \frac{5}{6} times \frac{3}{2} by multiplying numerator times numerator and denominator times denominator.

$$\frac{5\times 3}{6\times 2}$$

Do the multiplications in the fraction \frac{5\times 3}{6\times 2}.

$$\frac{15}{12}$$

Reduce the fraction \frac{15}{12} to lowest terms by extracting and canceling out 3.

$$\frac{5}{4}$$

Factor

$$\frac{5}{2 ^ {2}} = 1\frac{1}{4} = 1.25$$